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Up and up the wind drew him.
Haoyou looked about him and saw the whole world beneath him. And it was his.
The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family's poverty — by becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou is sent into the sky, earning money, freedom, and unexpected fame. Miao even plans for Haoyou to perform before Kublai Khan himself.
From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic world of thirteenth-century China.
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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JAMES INGRAM
reviewed Kite Rider on March 07, 2019
Kite Rider
Young Adult Fiction set during the time of Kublai Khan. The book addresses the tension between the Chinese and the Mongolian peoples under the reign of Kublai Khan; also the Confucian traditions of ancestor worship and obedience. The craft of kitemaking is key to the story line.
A 12 year old Chinese boy Haoyou witnesses his father's death, attempts to save his beautiful mother from a dreadful second marriage, and joins the circus as a kite rider. The notion of a kite rider is purely fictional. The author states she got the idea from the Chinese tradition of kitemaking and a Japanese use of manned kites to use as spies during warfare.
I enjoyed the story very much; it's a fast read.
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